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Yahoo!According to a survey of 1,049 Santa Barbara residents, six percent fewer people are driving to work alone than they were in 2002. The survey, paid for by Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, revealed that 71 percent of the commuters drive alone as opposed to 77 percent five years ago. The group most likely to seek out alternative means were Spanish-speaking respondents, with only 43 percent driving to work alone. While the Spanish-speaking tended to carpool and bicycle to work more, their Anglo counterparts—at least those not driving alone—were more inclined to ride the bus or telecommute. The survey also found that people who worked for businesses that provided some incentive not to drive alone were six percent more likely to find other ways to and from work.
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Here is link to the full report to SBCAG on the survey of commuters, by Traffic Solutions:
http://www.sbcag.org/Meetings/SBCAG/2007...
All the Santa Barbara City Transport & Circulation Committee members MUST NOT talk about this, nor listen to anyone else who is, during our non-meeting meeting on Thursday this week, because if we do to stay legal then we cannot discuss it during a later true meeting that is a meeting.
David_Pritchett (David Pritchett)
June 26, 2007 at 10:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So does this mean that if more people learned Spanish they then would ride the bus and carpool more often??
Perhaps another variable is at play here, Nick...??
David_Pritchett (David Pritchett)
June 26, 2007 at 10:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The stats are nice, but the board and staff exhanges were more interesting.
When did you ever hear a board member complain about getting too much money for road construction?
But when the money is going for rail, well that's a different story. It's like a zero sum game for those on the board who haven't bothered to learn the material. I guess they don't know that 1B gave $400M to rail, and that SB County has a rail corridor running through it, and that (as staff pointed out) it's a 1940's style rail line that is in desperate need of work.
Let's hope the next round of Supervisors understand that transportation means more than roads, and actually do their homework.
GlennYago (anonymous profile)
June 26, 2007 at 10:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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